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SEASON OF THE ARTS
music provokes.
For example, he says about Humanity and Hope:
“Our opening concert features Tchaikovsky’s soaring
First Piano Concerto and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
The concerto is a work whose premise is a proxy
for romantic values man’s place in his environment
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in which he or she exists. The format of a concerto
— soloist (the individual), and the environment (the
orchestra) lends itself perfectly to those explorations.
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a-symphony.”
Other concerts are called Postcards and Heart and
Soul. Postcards, he says, “describes Dvorak’s Ninth
Symphony, written while living far from his native
Bohemia in the United States; the overture to Semiramide
— Rossini’s postcard from ancient Babylon; and
Conrad Tao’s commissioned concerto is a newly written
postcard to current and future generations.”
Amado describes the choosing of music as a balancing
act, picking traditional classical music as well as
newer music that may become the classics of the next
generation.
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Normally the ACO doesn’t do opera. But this year, it
will. A Night at the Opera is a collaboration with the
Palm Beach Opera with young opera singers traveling
to the Waxlax Center at St. Edward’s School in Vero
and to the Lyric Theatre in Stuart.
Discover something new this season.
David Amado, the new
conductor of the Atlantic
Classical Orchestra,
looks forward to an
outstanding season.
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